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Teach Us to Pray
by
Charles Fillmore
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Forward
When Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray He warned them against
making a display of their praying in order to be seen of men. They should retire to their
"inner chamber" and pray to the Father who sees in secret and rewards openly. Then He
said, "After this manner therefore pray." The Lord's Prayer was given as a sample: not to
be followed literally. It is a petition according to the American revision; but according to
Fenton's translation it is a series of affirmations, as follows:
"Our Father in the Heavens; Your Name must be being hallowed;
"Your kingdom must be being restored;
"Your will must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the Earth.
"Give us to‐day our to‐morrow's bread;
"And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us, for You would not lead us into
temptation, but deliver us from its evil."
As in all matters where we seek divine help we are free to use any words we choose or no
words at all.
"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed."
Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the upward trend of nature found everywhere.
So every impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer.
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Eliphaz repeated a prayer formula when he said, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it
shall be established unto thee."
Jesus put the same idea in these words: "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I
do."
All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge.
What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not."
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
When we frame our desires in sound words and place them before our indwelling Lord,
we are using intelligently the supreme law of God in bringing into manifestation that
which He has implanted in us.
A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a
prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.
But above all practice the presence of God in prayer. Divine Mind has given us all
potentialities, in prayer we recognize it as the source of these, and with a right
understanding of our relation to it our soul grows great with infinite capacity, all
potentiality. "With God all things are possible." "All things whatsoever the Father hath are
mine."
We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in asking God for some human
need that we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying
beggars. God is Spirit in whom we "live, and move, and have our being." We are the
offspring of this Spirit and can make conscious contact with it by turning our attention
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away from material things and thinking about Spirit. As we practice this kind of prayer our
innate Spirit showers its life energies into our conscious mind and a great soul expansion
follows.
Jesus described this in the following words:
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door,
pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense
thee."
This "inner chamber" of the soul has been variously named by Scripture writers. It is called
the "secret place of the Most High" and the "holy of holies," and Jesus named it "the
Father . . . in me" and "the kingdom of God . . . within you." What we need to know above
all is that there is a place within our soul where we can consciously meet God and receive
a flood of new life into not only our mind but also our body.
This understanding shows us that prayer is more than asking God for help in this physical
world; it is in its highest sense the opening up in our soul of an innate spiritual umbilical
cord that connects us with the Holy Mother, from whom we can receive a perpetual flow
of life. This is the beginning of eternal life for both soul and body, the essential teaching of
Jesus, which He demonstrated in overcoming death.
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
We have earnestly sought to know and tell others how to pray, and this book is our very
best exposition of the subject. Language has not yet been invented to tell all the wonders
that we have found since we
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began opening our minds to the Spirit in prayer. We have discovered enough to convince
us that the body can be so charged with spiritual life through prayer that it will overcome
death, as promised by Jesus Christ.
Do not enlarge the defects of this book until they darken its truths, but accept the urge to
begin the practice of prayer and through it make contact with the source of your being.
Thus you will prove that, as Job wisely taught,
"There is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding."
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
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Contents
Foreword.............................................................................................................................3
The God to Whom We Pray.........................................................................................11
True Prayer..................................................................................................................16
Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence....................................................................22
Healing through the Prayer of Faith............................................................................27
Prosperity through Prayer...........................................................................................33
Contacting Spiritual Substance...................................................................................38
Joyous Prayer...............................................................................................................43
How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness..................................................47
Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master...................................................................55
Fulfillment...................................................................................................................60
Unfoldment.................................................................................................................66
Thought Images...........................................................................................................70
The Spoken Word........................................................................................................73
Thou Shalt Decree.......................................................................................................77
Be Strong in the Lord...................................................................................................80
Face to Face with God.................................................................................................83
Not Magic but Law......................................................................................................86
Spiritual Soul Therapy.................................................................................................90
Health and Prosperity.................................................................................................93
Thoughts Are Things....................................................................................................96
The Supermind..........................................................................................................100
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
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Cheerfulness Heals....................................................................................................104
Love Harmonizes.......................................................................................................107
Casting Out Fear........................................................................................................112
Spiritual Hearing........................................................................................................116
Light of Life................................................................................................................119
Thought Substance....................................................................................................122
Intensified Zeal..........................................................................................................126
The Unreality of Error................................................................................................129
Joy Radiates Health...................................................................................................132
"Selah!".....................................................................................................................135
Spiritualizing the Intellect.........................................................................................138
The Sevenfold Cleansing...........................................................................................148
Prayer and Faith........................................................................................................157
The Healing Word......................................................................................................164
Six‐Day Prayer Treatments........................................................................................175
Questions..................................................................................................................191
Index..........................................................................................................................201
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
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The God to Whom We Pray
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
‐‐Elizabeth Browning
OMNIPRESENCE, omniscience, omnipotence are verities of Being and are facts of
existence.
The Mind of God, creative Mind, is perpetually moving upon supermind ideas and through
them bringing man and the universe into existence.
Creative Mind is everywhere present; yet while it is within the mind of man it lies beyond
the consciousness of sense.
Omnipresence is that spiritual realm which can be penetrated only through the most
highly accelerated mind action, as in prayer. Thus in unfolding this inner kingdom we are
dealing with a reality beyond the ordinary comprehension of man.
To the superbly tuned mind and brain of Jesus Divine Mind was a soil eager with vibrant
life and light and substance, which He used to produce the finest of materials for both
character and body building.
Spiritual character building is from within outward.
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Spiritual character lives in man; it is what God has engraved on man's soul, ready for
development through man's spiritual efforts. It is a reserve force of organized victory over
carnality.
Man builds spiritual character by consciously functioning in God‐Mind, where, laying hold
of spiritual ideas, through Christ he realizes the Truth they contain; and as he thus weaves
them into his soul consciousness they become a part of his very nature.
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
Our most effective prayers are those in which we rise above all consciousness of time and
space. In this state of mind we automatically contact the Spirit of God. Indeed when we
elevate our consciousness to that of Jesus Christ, the God presence becomes as
meaningful to us as it was to Him. It is in this state of at‐one‐ment that we truly become
aware of His sublimity and power.
"I go to prepare a place for you." By getting acquainted with the one Mind as integral
substance, we move with it and it moves with us, and thus are established within us new
spiritual states of consciousness, a "place" where we are aware of the God presence as
reality.
Jesus said: "My Father is the husbandman." "I am the true vine." "Ye are the branches."
"As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye,
except ye abide in me."
"Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away: and every branch that beareth
fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit."
In this scripture Jesus is revealing to us that
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through Him we are born anew, born of God, and that through Him we may be
consciously attached to God‐‐as the branch is attached to the tree‐‐so that we may not
wither and be cast away.
Through Christ we are consciously attached to the parent stem. It behooves us to retain
this attachment so that we may go forward in spiritual unfoldment and be crowned with
eternal life.
Many good people think that God is a person located in a place in the skies called heaven.
They pray to Him for what they want and are satisfied. This is the prayer of the primitive,
personal man, and it meets his needs; but this is not direct communion of the Father and
the Son, the communion with reference to which Jesus said, "I and the Father are one."
We must have this more intimate acquaintanceship or communion with creative Mind if
we are in all ways to do His will.
God presence establishes us in ideas of honesty, strength, intelligence, spiritual manhood,
perfect womanhood, all needed factors in the unfoldment of the redeemed man, all
builders of the indestructible body temple.
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
Thus we must understand the nature of the God to whom we pray and awaken in
ourselves that divine nature through which we effect our union with God.
God is power: man is powerful. God is wisdom: man is wise. God is substance: man is
form and shape. God is love: man is loving. God is life: man is the living. God is mind: man
is the thinker. God is truth: man is truthful.
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Many people pray to God in the same manner as they talk to some distant friend over the
telephone. We talk too much about God, too much as though He were a third person in
the God‐man relationship instead of the first. It is unthinkable that the Creator should
cause to exist a creation so inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the pale of
fellowship with Him. In his saner moments man knows that this is not logical or true. It is
man's exalted ideas of God and his disparaging ideas of himself that have built the mental
wall that separates them.
In our prayers we must meet God face to face and realize that we are getting that inner
assurance which is the real answer to our petitions.
A minister, after twenty years of faith preaching, once was persuaded by a friend to try
the Truth way of prayer, the way of scientific silence. Afterwards he confessed that when
he touched God and found Him alive he was startled.
To Jesus the God presence was an abiding flame, a flame of life, of life everlasting that He
felt in every cell and fiber of His being, making Him more and more alive, cleansing and
purifying until He became every whit perfect. During our higher realizations of Truth we
are often conscious of this abiding flame working in us and through us.
To Jesus God‐Mind was a treasure field within Him in which could be found the fulfillment
of every need He could possibly have. The Spirit of God in Him was constantly working,
yes, steadily
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and persistently working, to transmute every natural impulse of mind and soul into a
spiritual realization of life. To Him the Spirit of God was working to satisfy His inner craving
with living substance and intelligence, thus rounding out soul and body consciousness into
the perfect expression of Divine Mind itself. What a glorious satisfaction God must feel in
His perfect Son Jesus who acknowledged His inner consciousness as one with, and as
TEACH US TO PRAY – BY CHARLES FILLMORE
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